World Philosophy Made (eBook)

From Plato to the Digital Age

Scott Soames (Autor)

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2019
464 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19741-8 (ISBN)

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How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live inPhilosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new concepts, reinterpreting old truths, and reconceptualizing fundamental questions, philosophy has progressed-and driven human progress-for more than two millennia. In short, we live in a world philosophy made. In this concise history of philosophy's world-shaping impact, Scott Soames demonstrates that the modern world-including its science, technology, and politics-simply would not be possible without the accomplishments of philosophy.Firmly rebutting the misconception of philosophy as ivory-tower thinking, Soames traces its essential contributions to fields as diverse as law and logic, psychology and economics, relativity and rational decision theory. Beginning with the giants of ancient Greek philosophy, The World Philosophy Made chronicles the achievements of the great thinkers, from the medieval and early modern eras to the present. It explores how philosophy has shaped our language, science, mathematics, religion, culture, morality, education, and politics, as well as our understanding of ourselves.Philosophy's idea of rational inquiry as the key to theoretical knowledge and practical wisdom has transformed the world in which we live. From the laws that govern society to the digital technology that permeates modern life, philosophy has opened up new possibilities and set us on more productive paths. The World Philosophy Made explains and illuminates as never before the inexhaustible richness of philosophy and its influence on our individual and collective lives.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.11.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 13 b/w illus. 1 table.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Absolute time and space • activism • Addition • Adoption • Amendment • Aristotelianism • Aristotle • Axiom • Axiom of reducibility • beneficiary • Calculation • Capitalism • Causality • Cognitive Psychology • cognitive science • Community of inquiry • Computation • Concept • Consciousness • Consequentialism • Consideration • constitutional law • Contradiction • corollary • crito • Decision-Making • Doctrine • Drafter • Elaboration • Empirical Evidence • Empiricism • Epistemology • erudition • ethics • Existence • Explanation • Falsity • First principle • free society • Frege (programming language) • Functionalism (philosophy of mind) • hypothesis • Incentive • income • inductive reasoning • inference • Inquiry • Institution • John Locke • Judicial interpretation • Judiciary • Linguistics • Logic • logical consequence • Logical truth • Marketing • Mathematical Induction • Mathematical Logic • mathematician • Mathematics • Meaning (linguistics) • Measurement • Mental representation • Mindset • Morality • moral obligation • narrative • Natural and legal rights • natural language • Natural number • Natural Philosophy • Natural science • Notation • Obedience (human behavior) • Objectivity (philosophy) • Obligation • Ontology • Organizing (management) • Original Position • phenomenon • Philosopher • philosophical inquiry • Philosophical Logic • philosophical studies • Philosophy • Philosophy of Language • philosophy of mathematics • Philosophy of mind • philosophy of science • Philosophy Today • Phrase • physicist • Platonic realism • Political Philosophy • Positivism • possible world • Potentiality and actuality • Precedent • Predicate (mathematical logic) • Prediction • premise • presumption • Primary goods • Princeton University Press • Principia Mathematica • Principle • principle of individuation • printing • Probability • Project • propositional attitude • Public Choice • Quantity • rational agent • Rationality • Reality • reason • referent • result • Return on Investment • Science • Scientific Method • Scientist • self-concept • self-consciousness • Self-Interest • Separation of Powers • Simultaneity • Society • Special relativity • State of nature • Stimulation • stipulation • Stoicism • subject (philosophy) • Summa Theologica • surplus value • The Administrative State • Theology • Theorem • Theoretical definition • theoretical physics • theory • Theory of Computation • Theory of Forms • Theory of Justification • The Philosopher • Thomas Hobbes • Thomism • Thought • Thucydides • Tractatus logico-philosophicus • Truth • Truth condition • Turing Machine • Understanding • Universal law • Variable (mathematics) • Wealth • well-being • Western Philosophy • World View • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19741-5 / 0691197415
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19741-8 / 9780691197418